Jammy things

[jack]

1. Look at a google cache page. Look at a google cache of google. Observe the absense of "this site it not affiliated with google" disclaimer. I wonder if that was legal pedantry or compsci pedantry?

2. Are not jammy dodgers sinister? They're nice, sure, but CREEPY! Just watch the advert, or taste their chewy stickiness...

Comments

[ilanin.livejournal.com]

1. It used to be there, implying that it was compsci pedantry. Or possibly management pedantry after somebody who works for Google read the New Scientist's Feedback column in which it was pointed out that this disclaimer message on their own website was really rather silly.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Ah, of course! "Someone else pointed it out and they felt silly" was next on my list, honest :)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

There's the same silliness when you get email from someone in a company saying [DISCLAIMER] at the bottom. You'd *hope* that *some* of their communication represents the company, or what's the point? :)

[ewx.livejournal.com]

A lot of email disclaimers say the message is confidential to the "intended recipient". Even on messages sent to public mailing lists...

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

True. One says if you are not the intended recepient you must (a) take no action based on this message and (b) delete it and inform the sender. OK, I know what they mean, but it's amusing to me :)